Living in Casper
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10/17/2008
I have been here for over 8 years. I have a good job and have been with it long enough that I am locked in financially and cannot move now. I will be the ONLY person here who will give you the straight facts. Casper is a rude city to live in. The cowboy mentality pretty much means mannerless, ignorant,and self-centered and you will find it without looking, anywhere you go here. The nicest most intelligent people you will meet here were born and raised elsewhere. The meth problem is big and hits the papers weekly. The clean air and open spaces are deceptive since the breast cancer rate per capita here is high. Must be something in all the chemicals and minerals here in the ground. If you move here you would do well to love extremely windy days (40+) because it blows like that 3 to 5 days out of the week. Doesn't matter if it's winter, or summer, it BLOWS..We are constantly chastised for telling people that but why lie to someone about a real issue?? Property sales and rentals are unreasonably high. Average rental for a tiny 60 year old 2 bedroom house is $750, with no frills, and rentals are hard to find here. Development is rampant and the population here in October of 2008 is over 70,000, not the 50,000 everyone else is telling you. We recently got a new hospital on the east side of the city which is a great thing because the health care here in town leaves a lot to be desired and the competition the old one will get now, might make them try a little harder. Need a dentist? You will wait a month to get in so it better not be an emergency. Not much for families to do here strangely enough, even with this kind of a population, no rec centers or the like so basically all they do is load up the families and spend their entire day shopping at WalMart. There are a lot of jobs here in every catagory you could search and I have never lived in a place where so many people just don't want to work, or don't want to stay at a job for more than a few weeks. The weather is not bad. The winters are not that cold except for a few odd weeks. Most of the people here who think it is cold have no reference since they haven't lived elsewhere. 32 degrees in February is not an arctic chill..Move here if you dare-enjoy it if you can. More power to ya...
Francesca | Casper, WY